Method of forming heel-rands



(No Model.)

F. P. RAYMOND, 2d.

METHOD OF FORMING HEEL BANDS.

No. 357,735. Patented Feb, 15, 1887..

\A/lT/VEEEES. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF FORMING HEEL-RANDS.

FJPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,735, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed November 1, 1886. Serial No. 217,660. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, FREEBORN F. RAY-' MOND, 2d, of Newton, in the county of MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bands and Method of Making the Same, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The object of the invention is to make aformed rand from fiat stock without waste; and it consists in cutting or dinking from the stock a rand-blank of suitable shape and con- V in perspective the complete rand.

A represents the rand-blank. It is cut from fiat stock, has the outer edge, a, the inner edge, a, and is of a shape to fit the heel end of a sole or heel-seat of the heel. It is then submitted to a cutting or skiving operation, whereby a diagonal out, a is formed in the blank from the lower outer edge to very nearly the inner edge, a, the cut extending to a point or line about midway the thickness of the stock at this point, and near enough to the edge a to permit the lower section, a thus separated from the remainder of the blank, to be turned inward, and to make in effect an inward continuation of the rand. To facilitate theturning or folding of this section,V- shaped pieces may be removed from it before it is folded. The rand'blank as then prepared is submitted to the operation ofcompression dies or rolls, whereby the part or section folded inward is made uniform with the remainder of the blank, and the result is a wide-formed rand decreasing in thickness from its outer edge inward, made from fiat stock without waste or material waste.

Of course it is desirable that the stock or blank should be in a tempered or wet condition.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The method of making formed rands, consisting in cutting from flat stock a rand-blank having the edges a a, then forming in the blank a cut extending from its lower edge diagonally across or very nearly across the same, then folding this partially-separated section inward to form a continuation of the blank, and flattening the same under pressure, substantially as described.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D. YVitnesses:

FRED. B. DOLAN, J. M. DOLAN. 

